How Far Back Does Hamilton 68 Really Go?

A Yahoo News reporter, Natasha Bertrand in August of 2017 posted in part the following –>

website launched on Wednesday by a former FBI special agent-turned disinformation expert claims to track Russian propaganda in near-real time, as it spreads via Twitter accounts that have been linked to Russian influence operations.

Clint Watts, who garnered national media attention after testifying before the Senate Intelligence Committee about Russia’s ongoing cyber and propaganda war against the West, spearheaded the project called Hamilton 68 — a hat tip to the founding father’s Federalist Papers No. 68.

“In the Federalist Papers No. 68, Alexander Hamilton wrote of protecting America’s electoral process from foreign meddling,” the site reads, alluding to Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. “Today, we face foreign interference of a type Hamilton could scarcely have imagined.”

Watts worked on Hamilton 68 with JM Berger, a fellow with the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism who studies extremism and propaganda on social media; Andrew Weisburd, a fellow at the Center for Cyber & Homeland Security; and Jonathon Morgan, the CEO of New Knowledge AI and head of Data for Democracy, a volunteer collective of data scientists and technologists. More here

Now you would think that former Federal government officials would tell the truth or at least do retractions as required when something is proven false…not so much.

In full disclosure, years ago, I read JM Berger’s book and interviewed him on my radio show. Furthermore, I followed Clint Watts on Twitter because as a former FBI agent, perhaps truth and context was important, it still is but not at the very least from those former ‘intelligence’ experts which now include even more former officials like Former Acting CIA Director Mike Morrell and former Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul.

They among others created a fraud upon America as discovered by Matt Taibbi and the Twitter files.

 

Read in depth here to see just how scandalous media and the officials really were…perhaps still are actually. The New York Post in part has the following paragraph:

The Hamilton 68 “dashboard” was the brainchild of former FBI special agent and MSNBC contributor Clint Watts and operated under the Alliance for Securing Democracy, a think tank founded in 2017 — shortly after former President Trump took office.  (Alliance for Securing Democracy, REALLY?)

Further from the New York Post: Emails in the disclosure show that Twitter’s own internal audits repeatedly showed that accounts flagged by Hamilton 68 were not Russian bots.

The Hamilton 68 website/screenshot as of the moment of this post:

 

Other names also include Bill Kristol, editor of the now defunct Weekly Standard, John Podesta and of course Hillary Clinton. Now we have some more questions for sure including who funded all of this? Perhaps the Clinton Foundation? How nutty is all this going to be when a deeper dive happens by the House Republicans on the Oversight Committee look at the other tech/media outlets like Google, Reddit, YouTube and Facebook?

 

Bullshit is right…more like KGB/Stasi tactics brought into the American public square and news outlets like CNN and the Washington Post need to own this too. Gotta wonder if the White House under Biden much less Obama’s White House team will get subpoenas….How much interaction was there between those former government officials and those in the House and Senate much like Adam Schiff?

This all brings a new definition to cyber wars and news media terrorism.

Hurry and Reconsider you use of Venmo, PayPal or Other Payment Apps

President Biden said that anyone making less than $400,000 per year would not a dime more in taxes….now a lie. Apps of all sorts are already asking for your banking information. Note….the banking information is getting reported by payments apps and other online sites such as Etsy, Marketplace and OfferUp. As you read further, understand what is not being revealed. The IRS is using private corporations to aid them in reporting personal information about you. Getting a 1099 could easily put you in a higher tax bracket dust because you collected dues from team members, sold an old umbrella or work on the side selling a potholder you knitted.

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FNC: Americans who made money online this year could be in for a potentially brutal shock when they file their taxes in 2023.

That’s because, beginning next year, taxpayers must report to the IRS transactions of at least $600 that are received through payment apps like Venmo, PayPal and Cash App.

In an explainer posted online last month, the IRS warned small business owners about the $600 threshold for receiving Form 1099-K for third-party payments exceeding $600.

Third-party payment processors will now be required to report a user’s business transactions to the IRS if they exceed $600 for the year. The payment apps were previously required to send users Form 1099-K if their gross income exceeded $20,000 or they had 200 separate transactions within a calendar year.

“I think it will come as a shock out of nowhere that people are getting these,” Nancy Dollar, a tax lawyer at Hanson Bridgett, told FOX Business.

Democrats made the change in March 2021, when they passed the American Rescue Plan without any Republican votes.

Now, a single transaction over $600 will trigger the form. The change is intended to crack down on Americans evading taxes by not reporting the full extent of their gross income. However, critics say that it amounts to government overreach at its worst and that it could ultimately hurt small businesses.

The lower reporting threshold threatens to sweep up millions of Americans who make money online. Roughly one in four Americans rakes in extra income on the side by selling something online, renting their home or using a digital platform to do work, according to the Pew Research Center.

The change could discourage some Americans from participating in the gig economy, according to Dollar.

“Everyone I know offloads old goods that they have on these platforms because it’s so easy,” Dollar said. “Or they’ve been engaging in gig work on a very casual basis, and that affects gig workers as well who have been underreporting their income. I think it’s going to force people to either cut down on those activities or kind of take them more seriously and track them.”

The new rule only applies to payments received for goods and services transactions, meaning that using Venmo or PayPal to send a loved one a gift, pay your roommate rent or reimburse a friend for dinner will be excluded. Also excluded is anyone who receives money from selling a personal item at a loss; for example, if you purchased a couch for $300 and sold it for $250, the amount is not taxable.

“This doesn’t include things like paying your family or friends back using PayPal or Venmo for dinner, gifts, shared trips,” PayPal previously said.

To be clear, business owners are already required to report that income to the IRS. The new rule simply means that the IRS will figure out what business owners earned on the cash apps, regardless of what that individual actually reports on their 1099-K, because it broadens the scope of the threshold.

Form 1099-K is used to report goods and services payments received by a business or individual in the calendar year, but there are certain exclusions from gross income that are not subject to income tax, including amounts from selling personal items at a loss, amounts sent as reimbursements and amounts sent as gifts.

For the 2022 tax year, you should consider the amounts shown on your Form 1099-K when calculating gross receipts for your income tax return,” PayPal said in a Q&A on its website. “The IRS will be able to cross-reference both our report and yours.”

The cash apps will now be required to send users who meet the newest requirements Form 1099-K for transactions made electronically or by mail.

The apps may request additional information from users shortly to properly report transactions, and users may be asked to provide their Employer Identification Number (EIN), Individual Tax Identification Number (ITIN), or Social Security Number (SSN) if it’s not already on file.

A Deeper Look Due to the Twitter Files

Elon Musk has assigned three people so far to drop summaries of internal communications at the Twitter headquarters. While much has been revealed, much has been held back including the actual communications. So withhold your excitement and gratitude of Elon Musk….however, there is some strategic thinking that does need to be applied here with what we have come to learn.

Let’s begin with something most disgusting and how it festered not only at Twitter but appears to have permeated throughout social media and now Congress and our education system….

Yoel Roth, the now former Twitter employee responsible for Trust & Safety appears to be a really dark and yikes …into child sex. The Post Millennial and the Libs of Tik Tok reports in part:

after it was revealed that Roth’s PhD thesis argued for minors to have access to adult content, writing “…it’s worth considering how, if at all, the current generation of popular sites of gay networked sociability might fit into an overall queer social landscape that increasingly includes individuals under the age of 18.” Read the full summary here.

BREAKING: Former Twitter exec Yoel Roth argued for minors' access to adult  internet services in PhD thesis | The Post Millennial |  thepostmillennial.com source

With that nasty part out of the way…The video above hosted by Steve Hilton of The Fox News Channel does an excellent breakdown of the U.S. security apparatus working in partnership/cadence with ALL social media. Big Tech that includes, Microsoft, Twitter, Google, Y0uTube, Reddit, Yahoo, Instagram, Facebook and Apple. We have a rogue Federal government and an even more rogue and nefarious social media/big tech system throughout the United States and actually the world.

Redoubling Efforts to Secure Midterm Election Elvis Chan, 2018 on election security

This particular release of the deposition of Elvis Chan. Chan is the head of cyber security , agent in charge at the FBI Bureau located in San Francisco. The reason for this deposition is due to the lawsuit against against the Federal government and the Biden administration brought by the Attorney General(s) of Missouri and Louisiana. The almost 400 pages is quite revealing. Chan under oath admitted that the FBI met weekly with social media companies in the lead up to the 2020 election with the topic of the Russia hack and dump operation. That is the continued script that began with Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy and continued through, well even today.

To validate the statement above that partnership between the security apparatus and social media understand the following:

All of the people listed below once or do work at Twitter….you can likely win a bet if there are others that work at the other big tech corporations…so here we go…

Elvis Chan, FBI

Shelby Pierson, Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Jim Baker, former FBI top lawyer and signer of false FISA warrants

Vijaya Gaddes, now currently hired by the Biden administration in the CISA agency

Dawn Burton, FBI

Jeff Carlton, formerly with the CIA and FBI

Matthew W. FBI

Patricia G. FBI

Bruce A. FBI

Michael Scott Robinson, CIA and FBI

Greg Anderson, NATO

Gordon McMillan, British Army Officer psyops soldier

Aaron Berman, CIA (now at Meta/Facebook)

Scott Stern, CIA

Deborah Berman, CIA

Bryan Weisbard, CIA

Cameron Harris, CIA

Emily Vacher, FBI

Hagan Barnett, former CIA contractor

Neil Potts, former USMC intelligence officer

Olga Belogolova, from the Defense Department

There are more people that moved within the big tech circles, leaving one company to join another. You can read the details here.

What do you feel you missed with news that should have been reported legacy media, social media or even our own agencies at the Federal government? You missed it because it was suppressed, unreported or completely censored. Every part of that is noted above cheated the entire voting public and that included congressional committees. Really? Yes.

Per the Chan testimony:

Chan also explained how the FBI would share the “disinformation” or “misinformation” with social media companies. It would take place around the time of quarterly meetings, if not more frequently through secure e-mails if the FBI field offices thought necessary. For example, the FBI might notify Facebook that a certain IP address is associated with the Internet Research Agency. The accounts flagged by the FBI are always removed by the social media companies, in large part because of pressure from Congressional Committees. As explained by Chan:

Around this same time, there were visits from Congressional staffers to pressure social media companies. Senior-level staffers have even visited Facebook, Google, and Twitter as part of these influence – or censorship – campaigns.

Chan continued:

The Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) is none other than Adam Schiff. As for the SCCI, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has Democrat Mark Warner as the Chairman.

 

 

 

Censorship Ordered by Biden Admin

Simply, it is a violation of law. Remember recently when the Department of Homeland Security was creating a disinformation task force? Remember how it was quickly terminated? Well…it was never terminated.

Primer: Attached is our final report, DHS Needs a Unified Strategy to CounterDisinformation Campaigns. We incorporated your formal comments into the final report.

(that report is dated August 2022)

Then there is this Fact Sheet from May of 2022 by DHS.

Do you ever wonder about what is actually on social media including Wikipedia? You should, but even more importantly, you should wonder what is not on social media, Wikipedia but more…those internet search results. Every American is being politically engineered by tech companies, social media and the cable/print media operations….but read on…

A big hat tip to the Attorney General of Missouri and to The Intercept…excellent work and this case continues.

Court Orders Depositions of Top Biden Officials in Missouri AG’s Case
Oct 21, 2022, 16:38 PM by AG Schmitt
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced today that the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana granted Missouri and Louisiana’s request for depositions from top-ranking officials in the federal government. This is movement in his lawsuit against top-ranking Biden Administration officials for allegedly colluding to suppress freedom of speech. The list of granted depositions includes Dr. Anthony Fauci, former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, Director of White House Digital Strategy Rob Flaherty, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, CISA Director Jen Easterly, and FBI Supervisory Special Agent Elvis Chan.
“After finding documentation of a collusive relationship between the Biden Administration and social media companies to censor free speech, we immediately filed a motion to get these officials under oath,” said Attorney General Schmitt. “It is high time we shine a light on this censorship enterprise and force these officials to come clean to the American people, and this ruling will allow us to do just that. We’ll keep pressing for the truth.”

The original lawsuit was filed by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry on May 5, 2022. Missouri and Louisiana filed a Motion for Expedited Preliminary Injunction-Related Discovery on June 17, 2022, and that motion was granted on July 12, 2022, clearing the way for Missouri and Louisiana to gather discovery and documents from Biden Administration officials and social media companies.

The request for depositions was filed on October 10, 2022, and that motion was granted on October 21, 2022, allowing Missouri and Louisiana to depose top-ranking officials in the federal government under oath. More here.

Furthermore, the Biden White House approving the operations are already infecting the mid-term elections and those of the 2024 general election.

In part from the documents revealed by The Intercept:

  • DHS is “directly engaging with social media companies to flag MDM” (MDM is defined as mis-information, dis-information, and mal-information). It is doing so “Ahead of midterm elections in 2022” and is readying its efforts with eyes focused on 2024:
  • DHS is questioning how to “inspire innovators to partner with the government” without this “being seen as government ‘propaganda’”.
  • The “rapid response team would need to surge for short periods of time around elections.”

CISA is by the way is The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency. It is an agency known to work with partners to defend against threats and collaborates to build a more secure and resilient infrastructure for the future as noted on the website. Hummm…is right. www.cisa.gov

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Additional details include in part:

The government had its fingers all over social media companies. DHS would tell social media companies what they wanted off the platforms via “takedown requests,” and then the platforms would submit reports to government. They would be “called on to ‘process reports and provide timely responses, to include the removal of reported misinformation from the platform where possible.'”

This was specifically done with election information, which would be flagged by state election officials, submitted to DHS, which would then tell social media companies to pull it. source

Civil Society Collapses with no Diesel Fuel

The Biden Green agenda will soon destroy the nation, there is no dispute. Having a war on fossil fuel is one thing but being so derelict when it comes to diesel is destructive beyond description. It is also evil and deadly to citizens, business and national security.

In 2021, the Biden White House published a trucking fact sheet endorsing the trucking industry. But it omits the real issues facing the industry and that includes regulations and the ridiculous high cost of diesel.

There was to be some kind of a listening session. In part: DOL and DOT will kick off listening sessions with drivers, industry and labor leaders, and advocates to hear their perspectives, profile promising practices, and source scalable solutions to retention and job quality issues for truckers. The first events in this series are happening today in South Carolina with Secretary Buttigieg, Deputy Administrator Joshi, and representatives from DOL and at the White House co-chaired by Secretary Buttigieg, Secretary Walsh, and National Economic Council Director Deese.

Now, facing November with the midterm elections and the coming holidays….the White House is flat-footed on the diesel crisis.

The Biden administration says it is keeping a close watch on diesel inventories and working to boost supplies following news that reserves have been depleted and could run out in less than a month if not replenished, sparking fears of shortages and rising prices.
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported this week that, as of Oct. 14, the U.S. had only 25 days of reserve diesel supply, a low not seen since 2008. National Economic Council Director Brian Deese acknowledged to Bloomberg that the level is “unacceptably low,” and “all options are on the table” to address the situation.
The EIA also said that distillate fuel includes heating oil inventories and is about 20% below the five-year average for this time of year. But areas in the Northeast are already rationing heating oil as temperatures drop, driving concerns that energy costs will surge further. source

Diesel fuel is used for many tasks

Diesel engines in trucks, trains, boats, and barges help transport nearly all products people consume. Diesel fuel is commonly used in public buses and school buses.

Diesel fuel powers most of the farm and construction equipment in the United States. The construction industry also depends on the power diesel fuel provides. Diesel engines can do demanding construction work, such as lifting steel beams, digging foundations and trenches, drilling wells, paving roads, and moving soil safely and efficiently.

The U.S. military uses diesel fuel in tanks and trucks because diesel fuel is less flammable and less explosive than other fuels. Diesel engines are also less likely to stall than gasoline-fueled engines.

Diesel fuel is also used in diesel engine generators to generate electricity. Many industrial facilities, large buildings, institutional facilities, hospitals, and electric utilities have diesel generators for backup and emergency power supply. Most remote villages in Alaska use diesel generators as the primary source of electricity. source

The US economy cannot run and sustain itself without the essential work of truck drivers. Their deliveries affect every industry we depend on like food, construction, medicine, fuel, and retail. Apart from day-to-day needs, truck drivers ensure first responders and healthcare workers have the tools they need to save lives. more here